The prosecution had recommended 13 years for Mississippi's Chris Epps, 56. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate handed down 235 months.

JACKSON, Mississippi -- Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps, who resigned abruptly this week, has been charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a ...

Former Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps pleaded guilty in 2015 to money laundering and filing false tax returns. Assistant Attorney U.S. Darren LaMarca recommended that Epps be sentenced to ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Christopher Epps once called himself the "tallest hog at the trough," but he was cut down to size Wednesday when a judge sentenced Mississippi's former corrections ...

(CBS News) PARCHMAN, Miss. - In 1990, when former prison guard Christopher Epps was the deputy superintendent at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in rural Parchman, he oversaw the construction ...

For years, Chris Epps ran the state of Mississippi’s prisons—now he calls prison home. The state’s former corrections commissioner is currently serving time at a federal prison in Texas for running ...

Mississippi’s Prison Bribery Scandal Is in the ... had recovered $26.6 million in a series of 11 settlements with companies accused of funneling bribes and kickbacks to Christopher Epps, ...

Christopher B. EppsMDOC photo JACKSON, Mississippi -- The Mississippi Department of Corrections has issued a statement that MDOC Commissioner Christopher B. Epps has resigned, effective immediately.

JACKSON, Miss. – Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps has been charged with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from a businessman connected to several ...